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The gentle and amiable friend of Achilles, in Homer’s Iliad. When Achilles refused to fight in order to annoy Agamemʹnon, he sent his friend Patrocʹlos to battle, and he was slain by Euphorbos.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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